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Article: Interview

Alisa Clancy Served Cheer and Empathy with Her Morning Cup of Jazz During COVID, Then Signed Off

by Joan Merrill
August 4, 2025

Bay Area jazz lovers were shocked to learn that “the voice of jazz" would no longer help them greet the day with her blend of jazz and good humor in a voice like no other. After 35 years as KCSM's premiere host, Alisa Clancy announced her retirement after almost single-handedly keeping the radio station ...

Article: Opinion

A response to yet another senseless public murder of a Black Citizen by officers of the law

by Wynton Marsalis
June 8, 2020

With the crescendo of public outcry and proliferation of opinions and justifiable expressions of outrage by so many experts, officials and popular celebrities, I fear there's little room or need for yet another person voicing a commonly held opinion. I also believe that the everyday tragedies that are commonplace and routine to our everyday ...

Article: Opinion

Black Lives Matter, Black Culture Matters

by Franz A. Matzner
June 6, 2020

Black lives matter. I am a jazz writer, so my lens on this truth is in some respects through music. The protests sweeping the country--and globe--are potent and necessarily focused on ending racial violence and police brutality. The images we see with increasingly open eyes of the barbaric treatment of African Americans are changing perceptions and ...